some questions

How do we define truth? How do we understand the nature of reality? How do we experience the nature of existence and eternity? Who are human beings? What is our responsibility? Why is there so much pain and suffering and hatred in the world? Why do we define ourselves using physical/cultural characteristics? How is the physical nature of our bodies related to the infinite spiritual nature of our true being? Why is the physical world used to judge spiritual matters? Why do we use human standards and arguments for the sake of truth, when truth is spiritual and outside the realm of the material world? Why do we judge based on our five senses? What would our perception of reality be without our five senses? What is love, and how do we love? Why is love so difficult to practice yet easy to understand? How do we define wealth and poverty?

What is the nature of religion? How is religion used and for what purposes? Who, or what, is God/Allah/Yahweh? Why do people judge and hate in the name of God? Who was Yeshua, son of Mary and Joseph, and reputedly of Divine origin? Who was Abraham, father of Ishmael and father of Isaac? Who was Mohammed? What is the Bible? What is the Qur’an? What is the Torah, the Talmud, the Kebra Negast, the Gnostic gospels, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Tao Te Ching, the Book of the Dead? What is a church? What is a temple? What is a mosque? What is the real, true significance of place, in a theological context? Why do we sin, or rather, why do we commit acts against ourself that seem to elevate our place in society, but only serve to distract us from the reality that we are depraving ourselves from spiritual food?

It is Allah who causes whomsoever He wills to grow in purity... (Qur’an 5:49)

Indeed, when [non-Jews], who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts... (Romans, 2:15)

Whoever submits his whole self to Allah and is a doer of good, will get his reward with his Lord. (Qur’an 5:18)

There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil... honor and peace for everyone who does good... For God does not show favoritism. (Romans 2:9-11)

The Way that can be experienced is not true;

The world that can be constructed is not real...

Beyond the gate of experience flows the Way,

Which is ever greater and more subtle than the world.

- Tao Te Ching